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[Volitions Advocate]

I made a little post bout this in the "if you'd break down and bought one" thread and I thought I deserved its own thread for discussion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ppkHjgUJA

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I dig it.  very groovy.  Saves you having to use some sort of midi/synth guitar processor to digitally retune your strings.  I like the idea that its so fast too.  Apparently their endorsee list is in order of when they became customers and Jimmy Page is #1 on the list.
I heard about these things because of Jeff Martin (who basically taught me how to play guitar).

What do you guys think?  Ever use exotic tunings?  Would you ever have a Use for this?  The use I see would be in changing tunings during the song.
The only downside I can really see are that the little control pad on the front of the guitar is really ugly, Id rather have it on the top next to the LCD, and the fact that you can't have a tremolo bridge.  Which doesn't necessarily bother me at all but for some guys it might.

Worthy of a Warmoth Build perhaps?

discuss

 

[dbw]

I'm not interested in the Robot Guitar or this either.  Though I got the opportunity to try a Robot LP the other day, and it works pretty well.  Just not my bag

 

[mayfly]

I think it sounds pretty cool - I'd use it as an effect - like a pedal steel thing.

But I'm just bent different...

 

[kboman]

I guess if I played in lots of different tunings it would come in handy - but I don't. Also it's really really ugly.

(the only "other" tuning I've found useful is "open F", FACFAF, I wrote two songs using it)

 

[Volitions Advocate]

of the alternate tunings i use I mostly only use a couple but I have them in different keys.
Low to High
DADADE (or) CGCGCD
DADF#AD (open D)
D#G#D#G#G#D#...  varius keys, depending on the song/guitar.
Or it would be helpful when you need to play those pesky Eb songs. (hendrix or smashing pumpkins as examples)
or in F or whatever.

Obvously you wouldn't be able to switch from Standard E to like... Drop B or something, the strings wouldn't be heavy enough.  But I actually could really use something like this.

I've heard about the Gibson robot guitar... what does it do?

 

[dbw]

I've heard about the Gibson robot guitar... what does it do?

Same basic idea, but it's motorized machine heads rather than a motorized bridge.  Also the controls are all behind one knob, so you have a standard 4-knob LP control layout, and you pull up on one of them to control the tuning.

 

[misplacedsanity]

It just seems to me to be solving a problem where there wasn't a problem to begin with. It reminds me of text speak were people can't be bothered to type out a full word, just simplify everything, make it easy, no learning curve, no effort. It's the way the worlds going, McTuning.
Why, when I were a kid, we'd have to get up three hours before we went to bed, tune our guitars with are eye balls, thats if we could have afforded a guitar, which we couldn't. I had to make me own guitar.........out of coal.

 

[kboman]

It just seems to me to be solving a problem where there wasn't a problem to begin with. It reminds me of text speak were people can't be bothered to type out a full word, just simplify everything, make it easy, no learning curve, no effort. It's the way the worlds going, McTuning.
Why, when I were a kid, we'd have to get up three hours before we went to bed, tune our guitars with are eye balls, thats if we could have afforded a guitar, which we couldn't. I had to make me own guitar.........out of coal.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo[/youtube]

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[Volitions Advocate]

LOL @ "We used to Dream of having to live in a corridor"..  Make me think of "What I wouldn't give to be spat at in the face!"

It just seems to me to be solving a problem where there wasn't a problem to begin with.... just simplify everything, make it easy, no learning curve, no effort.

I remember when i first started playing guitar I had my Ibanez Acoustic Electric, that was my only guitar.  And I'd manually tune my guitar back and forth through all these tunings... ( as in I didn't have a tuner )  So yeah... " When I was kid...."  What a friggen hassle that was.  So I say bring on the robot guitars... If you have a use for them... and I certainly do.

I'd prefer it to having to swtich guitars every song you play.

 

[kataar]

well.... I dunno about that one, mate. I mean, you COULD have only one guitar in every tuning,,,, but why not have TEN GUITARS in every tuning!?  :blob7: The whole point ito life is getting more geetars, isnt it?  :toothy10:

 

[Volitions Advocate]

well when you use that argument what chance do i have of being right? :dontknow:

 

[kataar]

my bad!. :'( im horrible.  :doh:

 

[RLW]

but why not have TEN GUITARS in every tuning!? 

I can find no fault with this line of thinking.